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new official promo poster for OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH season two

edward’s lines during the toe scene are so vital to the framing of that scene & i feel like they get almost completely overlooked. like. this isn’t a power play. this isn’t edward putting izzy in his place. it isn’t him violating izzy.

and frankly, izzy’s reaction on its own should give that away. he screams at the pain, initially, but when he realizes that the one inflicting it is blackbeard as he wants him to be, he’s awestruck and smiling—for the first time in the series, he’s happy.

then, there’s the fact that (as someone on reddit pointed out and i can’t for the life of me find the post i’m so sorry) that entire interaction is shot like a sex scene—the low, warm lighting, the slow pan up izzy’s body, the closeups. which is. sure interesting, given that we seem to all have picked up on the oh my god izzy’s into this aspect of the whole thing. but that’s just the thing! izzy is into it. ed isn’t. this is highlighted by the earlier choking scene—izzy is delighted to have ed’s hand around his throat, but the second ed realizes that he is, he pushes him away and severs all physical contact.

this all suggests that the act of cutting off izzy’s toe and force-feeding it to him is not a method of exercising control over izzy—rather, it’s a method of appeasing him. it’s ed resigning himself to a lifetime misery to keep himself safe, and his lines should dispel any doubt about this.

because he doesn’t say “disobey me again” or “question me again” or “mock me again”. he says, “threaten me again, ever, and i’ll feed you the rest.”

i don’t really want to put someone on blast for a comment they deleted, but this feels worth keeping on record re: “saying that ed is acting this way for izzy’s sake is abuse apologism”, so here you all go.

"Pain and depression" oil on canvas Ipad pen on Ipad

Drew some Ed’s instead of doing my finals :)

I love him 😭

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so, I’m rewatching episode 6 of OFMD and thinking about how Ed admits that he hasn’t killed anyone since he killed his father. And how at the beginning of the episode, Izzy tells Ed that he needs to kill Stede with Fang and Ivan at his back, an intimidation tactic to make Ed realise how serious this shit is. BUT then, Izzy waits until Ed is all by himself and THEN and only THEN he says that he’s happy to do it himself. 

And the first time that I watched this I was like ‘yeah of course he’s happy to deal with this himself, he hates Stede and he also thinks Edward see’s Stede as a ‘pet’ so wouldn’t want to hurt him’ (interesting that Izzy can’t conceive of Stede being a friend only a ‘pet’ but I digress) but with the context that Ed doesn’t kill it’s like. Oh. OH. He’s offering, while Ed is all alone, because Ed doesn’t kill. And because Izzy is the one who kills for Ed, probably the most out of anyone in Ed’s crew because he’s the one who’s tasked with protecting Blackbeard’s reputation and so this is probably a secret that (until Ed tells Stede) only he and Izzy share.

And like GOD their relationship is so LAYERED and interesting. Because it’s obviously toxic but also there’s this thing which is such a WEAKNESS and Izzy HATES all the weaknesses that he sees in Ed but also THIS weakness he protects unfailingly, keeps out of the way of everyone else. and it’s just. Yeah. I’m having some emotions about it.  

I reblogged this without comment the first time I saw it, but I’m thinking about it again and I’m pretty sure that there’s no way Ed just told Izzy that he doesn’t kill people.  The anguished way Ed confesses to Stede definitely seems like he’s never admitted it aloud before, and there’s nothing about Ed and Izzy’s relationship that leaves room for confessions of any kind.  Which means that Izzy just noticed, all on his own.  Because he’s been at Ed’s side for so long and paying attention in a way that most don’t, the better to compensate for what he sees as Ed’s weaknesses.  And it makes the whole thing extra fascinating to me because he says that Blackbeard is his captain, that he has no interest in Edward, but he’s also one of the few people who ever actually saw Edward, before Stede.

Which is super fucked up when you think of it in context of him threatening Edward, by the way, because Izzy is the one person Edward is helpless against: Izzy knows Edward won’t kill him.  Which is why it’s such a big deal in the toe scene that Ed tells him Lucius is dead: because what he’s actually saying is I fucking killed him, to the one other person who knows that Blackbeard doesn’t do that.  He’s saying he’s changed the rules of the game, that he’s finally, after all of these years, playing it to win.

No wonder Izzy’s so happy after that.  He pulled off a hail mary pass and it fucking worked, and now all of his wildest dreams came true.  And I’m sure none of it is going to backfire horribly on him in the next season!

I never made the connection between Izzy knowing Blackbeard doesn’t kill people (however he’s interpreting that for himself) and how he would interpret Blackbeard telling him Lucius is dead, and it makes complete sense.  But I have to wonder how Master Deflector Edward “technically, the fire killed those guys (even though I trapped everyone inside)” Teach feels about it.  I mean, it’s not like he shot Lucius; he just threw him overboard, and if the water kills him because he’s not a strong enough swimmer then that’s not Blackbeard’s problem.  Plus, he marooned the rest of Stede’s crew instead of killing them directly or having his crew members do it. This is definitely “left for dead” and by gritty pirate genre logic should kill them, but I’m sure in his head that if they were alive the last time he saw them, then he’s not what killed them- dehydration or starvation did.  I think a key nuance here is that Izzy may have heard “I killed him”, but I’m not sure the rules have actually changed for Ed, or even if he meant to imply that they had.

I am The Kraken (fanart by @lydsirabella on IG)

Brother in Christ this absolutely stunning

Yesterday I overheard someone talking about how he was taking classes at the University of Maryland because they offer free tuition if you’re over 60. 

My brain IMMEDIATELY began scripting a screwball comedy in which a broke millennial who desperately want to finish his long-abandoned degree but is drowning in student debt pretends to be a senior citizen in order to attend college for free.

I’m picturing someone Channing Tatumesque, applying age makeup every morning before he heads off to class. It’s sort of a cross between 21 Jump Street and Mrs. Doubtfire. He keeps forgetting which hip is supposed to be his bad one. His classmates laugh every time he uses slang. There’s definitely a scene where he attends a college party and busts it up on the dance floor.

He catches the eye of a fellow returning student, a woman in her 50s, but she thinks he’s like 70 and she’s already buried one husband, you know? She’s not interested in doing that again. When his charade unravels (hilariously) at the end of the movie, though, she finds out he’s actually like 30 and has abs you could bounce a quarter off. And he’s still super into her. And really, maybe it’s time she gave May-December romance a chance.

Okay so to refine this concept a little:

Our Hero is stuck in a job where he keep seeing people get promoted past him because they have a 4-year degree and he doesn’t. He can’t afford to go back to school until he finishes paying off his student loans for the degree he’s one semester from completing. If he got the promotion he wants he could pay them off a lot quicker. But he can’t get the promotion without the degree.

Along comes a clerical error in his almost-alma mater’s records which lists his birth year as 1948 instead of 1984. He gets a call from them about their “free tuition for seniors” program. “Wow, that sounds amazing!” he says. “I’ll be sure to tell my, uh, grandpa, as soon as he gets home.”

It’s one semester. If he can keep up the charade, he’ll have the degree, get the promotion, pay off the student loans. Hell, if they figure it out after the fact and come after him for the tuition, he’ll be able to afford it by then. He just needs to pass as a 70-year-old until graduation. How hard could it be?

(also, someone in the notes suggested “Senior Year” for a title, which is PERFECT.)

Holy shitballs.

BEN BARNES as Billy Russo in THE PUNISHER S01

Drew Sarich “Cancel Christmas” Official Music Video

Drew Sarich released a Christmas EP ft. the single “Cancel Christmas” for the special year we have 

Trump’s unidentified secret police force was not prepared to meet this guy.

He said in an interview that he shouldn’t have been surprised that they would have no respect for vets when they are gassing moms

Honorary Antifa Supersolider

This summer will be the same as the last one: me under a train for those dumbasses

(soon the Aziraphale going to visit Crowley version because we have never enough versions of the first kiss™)

think we can get all 10 plagues by the end of june?

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